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She saw the boy. She knew he was the one the second she saw
him.

She knew he was the first boy she’d ever kill.
(I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.)
It’ll be the goddamn dress they bury me in.
(Be a lady in the streets and a dark, terrifying, chthonic

hellbeast
in the roads and alleyways, in the liminal, protean spaces
from which people avert their gaze and speed past in

unthinking, primal terror.)
Don’t you know women are made of pain?

Sources include: Clementine von Radics, Valerie Solanas, littlelight,
George R. R. Martin, Jeanann Verlee, Emilie Autumn, the authors of
asofterworld, Sojourner Truth, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Sexton,
Mohja Kahf, Sylvia Plath, Nicki Minaj, Grimes, Andrea Dworkin, My
Chemical Romance, anonymous graffiti, anonymous Tumblr posts
without sources, Alexander McQueen, Marina Diamandis, Joseph
Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, Mrs. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter,
Marjorie Liu, Daniel Acuna, Kim Addonzio, Halia Meguid, an
anonymous woman in India who incited a mob to help her kill her
rapist in a public courthouse, anonymous marchers in a Take Back
the Night, Taylor Swift, Peter Jackson, and Janelle Monaé.

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